<div dir="ltr">A user&#39;s first impression is very important. That being said, plasma crashed within minutes of my first boot-up.&nbsp; The widgets/plasmoids seem to crash quite easily in every alpha and both betas. I&#39;m using the intel-3d-enable driver and have effects disabled.<br>
<br>Folder view is an excellent widget and I recently discorvered you can use fish and smb protocols like Konqueror (pretty neat). But while tweaking/resizing/positioning the widget, Plasma will lock up or crash then scatter my widgets around the desktop.&nbsp; <br>
<br>The first crash I encountered was when highlighting the 3 default icons in the Desktop Folder View and pressing the delete key. It deleted the icons, then turned my sceen white, and restarted plasma. However, I could not duplicate the crash when I restored the icons and tried hilighting/deleting again.&nbsp; The other lock-ups and crashes were all widget/plasmoid related, including the Twitter Microblogging widget, which crashes Plasma every time and scatters my desktop :(<br>
<br>Other problems include:<br>System tray icons sometimes have garbled/non-transparent backgrounds...<br><br>The Computer Administration section of System Settings should be 2 lines of 4 icons each to match the sections above it.&nbsp; Right now it looks like it&#39;s wrapping.<br>
<br>The WiFi tool connected to an open wifi in the area immediately, which was nice... But when I clicked scan it didn&#39;t list my WiFi. I did &#39;ifconfig -v wpi0 up list scan&#39;&nbsp; and it did not list my WiFi either. When I entered my SSID and WEP key into the GUI it connected, and now it shows up when I scan every time.&nbsp; This worked perfectly the first time in Beta 1, so I am not sure what happened, or if I can repeat it without reinstalling.<br>
<br>The Skulpture Style from KDE-Look.org is very nice and makes windows look much cleaner.&nbsp; It&#39;d be nice to see it as a default style. Also, a custom boot screen would be nice.&nbsp; <br><br>Thanks for the great work! I look forward to doing more testing.<br>
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